A survey conducted on nearly 5,000 transgender people by the national AIDS control organisations showed that one-fifth of transgender people had experienced sexual violence. India’s rape laws do not do injustice to transgender people because they define men as criminals and women as the victims. In the past few years, India has seen numerous rape cases which sent shockwaves throughout the country. There also have been nationwide protests, jet they do not recognise the problem associated with other genders. They do not recognise that it is necessary to protect the other genders. Punishment for physical and sexual abuse of a transgender person is made of six months and a maximum of 2 years in prison with a fine. This has been listed under the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act 2019.
Transgender community visitor landmark judgement which gave them the right to self identify and male or female. They celebrated this progress as it made a huge impact on their fight for equality. “The transgender identity in India is extremely diverse. In some (Indian) cultures transgender persons and believed to have to define powers and based on the particular feature in the belong to for the practices to follow they have different names such as hijras, kinnars, arvaris, jogtas,” said Diana Dias. Police do not also seem to take into consideration the complaints made by the transgender people. There have been cases where the police have made lewd gestures and said in their local language how they wanted to rape the Transgender and show them their place. Sometimes police register the complaints of the victims but don’t take any further action. Sexual crimes should be made gender-neutral. They should work for every gender. They also should not become heavy on a particular gender. After the introduction of a bill by KTS Tulsi, to make these crimes gender-neutral, it was said by Tulsi that he didn’t intend to undermine the experiences of women subjected to rape and discrimination. He also said that society must develop empathy for all which includes male and transgender victims.